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Nevada Payphone: A thing of the past?

The Nevada Appeal accompanies its fine story about declining payphones with a strangely erotic photo of a rotary dial payphone.…

18 years ago

Supreme court rules in favor of payphone industry

"The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the right of companies to sue over alleged violations of federal communications law and…

18 years ago

San Diego: Sun sets on beach pay phones

The Union-Tribune's Michael Stetz writes:"Mark Thomas, who started The Payphone Project, digs pay phones. Thomas used to call them out…

18 years ago

Scotland claims “the most famous phone booth in the world”?

Because of its central role in the movie "Local Hero," a phone booth in Pennan, Scotland has become one of…

18 years ago

Scotland: £560 for a call from a phone box?

By BT Scotland's math, annual maintenance costs for a phone box are about £1,600. This story profiles a Scotland phone…

18 years ago

Uganda: Phone Operator Disconnects Client

"There was drama in Nateete recently..."This all-too-short story reads like a screenplay-in-waiting. From this story, it sounds as if a…

18 years ago

Penn State student asks: ‘How do you make a collect call?”

A long article from Penn State University's "Daily Collegian" describes the inexorable decline in payphones from the university's campus. Canadian…

18 years ago

New York: Prisoners’ lawsuit over payphone fees revived

"The Court of Appeals, in a 4-2 decision, reversed a lower court's determination that the lawsuit should be dismissed for…

18 years ago

Payphones? Of course!

The Daily Herald warns against getting ripped off by unscrupulous payphone operators, and also includes a few interesting facts and…

18 years ago

When a serial murderer calls… from a payphone

Here is an interesting story about one reporter's involvement in the infamous Zodiac serial murderer case. In September, 1969, the…

18 years ago